NSU Farquhar Honors Program

Exploring Health, Wellness, and Visual Storytelling in our Honors Open Classroom.

Thank you to Dr. Fariha Niazi, Chair of the Department of Couple and Family Therapy, for leading an engaging and insightful discussion, and to our Honors Student Linda Montenegro, for moderating this talk.

Meaningful conversations on climate action and sustainability 🌊🌱

Our Honors event on “Sustainability in an Era of Rising Seas: Mitigation, Resilience, and Adaptation” explored rising sea levels, economic impacts, and long-term sustainability strategies with insightful speakers, Sharon Gray and Nikolas Camejo. Thank you for educating and for sparking thoughtful discussion

Congratulations to all our graduating seniors and award recipients! 👏
We had so much fun celebrating all of your accomplishments, and we can’t wait to see what you do next! 🌟🥺

The recipients of our Honors Area Awards are:
🌟Arts & Humanities: Nouha Belghmi
🌟Arts & Humanities: Stephanie Taffe
🌟Community Engagement: Zoe Mutschler
🌟Sciences: Bella Bocock
🌟Sciences: Giuliana Forgione

The recipient of our Dean’s Distinguished Transdisciplinary Student Scholarship is:
✨Bella Bocock

Thank you to our speakers of the evening:
📣Kristi Messer, DHSc, LCSW, MPH - Faculty Speaker
📣Rhea Brown, BSN, RN - Alumni Speaker
📣Sofia Castellanos-Bristol - Student Speaker

Thanks to all who joined us in celebrating the end of a fantastic year!

Sip & Spill, a collaborative event between the Honors Program and NSU’s Lifelong Learning Institute, brought the two groups of students together for meaningful intergenerational learning, creating space to sip, share, and explore diverse perspectives.

We’re not ready to say goodbye to our seniors yet!

Last week, we hosted a workshop for our graduating seniors to prepare them for graduation. While we are sad to see them go, we are so proud of how far they’ve come throughout their journey with us here in Honors!

And just like that, we wrap up the 2026 Undergraduate Student Symposium. What an incredible way to celebrate the hard work, creativity, and dedication our students have put into their research. The effort and time put into all projects displayed clearly sets the foundation for the amazing things these students will go on to do in the future.
We’re so proud of you all!

A special shoutout to our award winners:

Digital Projects
First Place: Jesse Caruana Snachkus
Second Place: Nida Haider
Third Place: Riddhi Banerjee

TED-Style Talks
First Place: Kiran Sajnani, Barath Kumar Reddy Burri, Yuktha Milikuri, & Preya Patel
Second Place: Aashvi Gowrisankar
Third Place: Ella Riddle

Oral Presentations
First Place: Catherine Salazar & Alexander Wheeler
Second Place: Kyle Fleming
Third Place: Lindsay Scherer, Kamille Jackson, Madelyn Hooper, Briana Badowski, & Nicole Mazher

Posters
First Place: YingYing Zhu, Ariana Hernandez, Natalia Noto, Victoria Pulido-Correa, Chana Vogel, & Julianna Bonetti
Second Place: Tracey Alexis, Melissa Basily, Maria Castenada, Jayden Courtney, Tamanna Dipen Shah, Javier Estepa, Malak Gadelkarim, Wayne Jean-Baptiste, Elias Leyes, Anushka Malay, Mackenzie Nezat, & Mahisvi Vemulapalli
Third Place: Elizabeth Avila

Honorable Mentions (Posters)
Alanis Malave Carmona, Julian Oliver Bozek, Elizia Jijon, Shivansh Patel, Alvin Binoj, & Samuel Dinh
Rachel Shaw
Lacey Adamik

Don & Sherry Rosenblum Research Award
Mahalaxmi Some

Logo Contest Winner
Joshua Yue

Some moments from our 2026 Undergraduate Student Symposium!

Many thanks to our student presenters and their faculty advisors, to our faculty judges, our student volunteers, and our Honors Leadership and USS Steering Committee Members! A great deal of effort went into making this event a great success.

Thank you, Dr. Bass and Dr. Edwards, for leading our Current Events Forum!

The Current Events Forum brings students and two esteemed faculty guests who dive into the headlines. We appreciate all of the students who attended and brought their perspectives to the table!🤔📢

We loved seeing everyone come out to learn, ask questions and plan ahead for our Honors Program Course Overview!

Thank you to everyone who came to our alumni speaker event last month! Last month’s panel featured inspiring alumni who shared their undergraduate and graduate and experiences, and explored how Honors played a role in those experiences. Thank you to David Singh, M.H.A., and Hannah Bromberg, D.O., for the wisdom shared and insight provided!